I ask this in like every React thread that comes up:

What is everyones experience with just using Backbone Models as your data source. We currently just pass the backbone models as props, but include a mixin that forces re-renders by listening to the model's change event.

I can see how at very large scales you'd want to move away from that, but for us it works great so far as we don't have to think that much about events, components are still just simply representations of the model in a functional way.